Category Archives: Fatelessness

The Holocaust

Dear students,

From now on we are going to work with the book Fatelessness by Imre Kertész. To know about the context in which this book is based on, pay attention to the following video and answer the questions below:

Watching Activity

Listening comprehension questions:

1. What is the Great Depression?

2. What happened in January 1933?

3. What was Adolf Hitler´s his original plan?

4. What is propaganda? Can you infer its meaning?

5.  How were Jews classified at that time?

6. What example is given to portray discrimination against jews at schools?

7. How did Jews become poor?

8. What are Ghettos?

9. What was life like in the ghettos?

10. How were Jews controlled?

11. What were concentration camps?

12. Who was doctor Josef Mengele? What did he do with Jews and why?

13. What did number tattoos on jews mean for German?

14. What is Auschwitz?

15. How were people talked into going to gas chambers? What strategies did the german use to keep their minds busy?

16. What was Zyklon B ?

17. What other atrocities are shown in the documentary?

18. How did the jews manage to escape?

Who was the Angel of Death?